Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' "
Karl Kraus
Man
Like
Beast
Related Quotes:
" Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. "
Karl Kraus
People
Avoid
Solitude
" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
Karl Kraus
Language
Mother
Thought
" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
Karl Kraus
Opportunity
Slave
Everyone
" Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. "
Karl Kraus
Experience
Inheritance
Savings
" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
Karl Kraus
Idea
Surprised
Action
" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. "
Karl Kraus
Corruption
Individual
Morals
" Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. "
Karl Kraus
Human Nature
Crime
Justice
" Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. "
Karl Kraus
Scandal
Begins
Police
" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
Karl Kraus
Work
Time
People
" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "
Karl Kraus
Catching
Feeling
Idea
" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
Karl Kraus
Mental Illness
Mental
Illness
" My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. "
Karl Kraus
Than
Unconscious
More
" Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. "
Karl Kraus
Synthesis
Analysis
Art
" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
Karl Kraus
Does
Than
Means
" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "
Karl Kraus
Affairs
Private
Meddle
" Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. "
Karl Kraus
Ideas
Skill
Time
" A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. "
Karl Kraus
Woman
Cannot
Ugly
" The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. "
Karl Kraus
Test
Principle
Lifestyle
" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
Karl Kraus
Span
Attention
Culture
" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
Karl Kraus
Same
Men
Equal
" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
Karl Kraus
Martyrdom
Matrimony
Meanness
" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "
Karl Kraus
Thieves
Dog
Which
" Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. "
Karl Kraus
Well
Some
Sexuality
" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
Karl Kraus
Epic
Masculine
Passion
" I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. "
Karl Kraus
Say
Well
Very
" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "
Karl Kraus
Will
Praise
Without
" If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. "
Karl Kraus
Lies
Reporter
Life
" Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. "
Karl Kraus
Ideal
Want
Who
" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
Karl Kraus
Because
Something
Nothing
" A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. "
Karl Kraus
Never
Child
Short